Superior’s “third largest” municipal forest actually nation’s 13th largest
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Hi John,
Governments, like Superior’s, dislike real journalists like yourself. If they can’t control the narrative, they try to pretend you aren’t there and they hope that no one listens to you–only to them. They only talk to the softball reporters (like the DNT, and scratching-for-clicks and suck-up sites like Howie Hanson and Northern News Now) that blindly report anything any government official tells them.
But despite the government BS, you are right in that the Superior forest is a great place. It doesn’t matter how relatively big they are (all governments feel they have to exaggerate everything they do, like Spirit Mountain claiming they have 700′ vertical when it is actually less than 600′).
Oh, governments–why would anyone wonder why we don’t trust them!?
Governments seem to have a need to exaggerate how good they are. It is a great forest, well administered and appreciated by all of us. But it should not be necessary (and it is dishonest) to exaggerate…
This reminds me of ski hills. For example, Spirit Mountain, in Duluth claims to have 700′ of vertical; but a simple check with any old topo map or the latest Lidar shows Spirit only has 575′ of vertical.
This is a fun story from the Duluth Monitor.